Final exam outlines and dates

Question 1

Obadiah

Answer 1

I. The pride of God’s enemies (1-9)
II. The mistreatment of God’s people by God’s enemies (10-14)
III. The judgment of God’s enemies (15-16)
IV. The deliverance of God’s people (17-21)

Question 2

Ezekiel

Answer 2

I. Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem (1-24)
A. Visions: the prophet’s call and commission (1-3)
B. Sign acts: the destruction of Jerusalem depicted (4-5)
C. Speeches: the comprehensibility of God’s judgment (6-7)
D. Temple vision: God abandons the temple (8-11)
E. Sign acts: the exile depicted (12)
F. F. Speeches: the inevitability of God’s judgment (13-24)
II. Prophecies against the foreign nations (25-32)
III. Prophecies of restoration (33-48)
A. Preparation for restoration (33-39)
B. Restored temple and worship (40-48)

Question 3

Daniel

Answer 3

I. The training and testing of the remnant (1)
II. Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and God’s plan for the ages (2)
III. The golden image and the fiery furnace (3)
IV. Nebuchadnazzar’s warning dream and humbling (4)
V. Belshazzar’s feast and God’s judgment (5)
VI. Daniel in the lion’s den (6)
VII. The triumph of the Son of Man (7)
VIII. The vision of the ram and the he-goat (8)
IX. The vision of the seventy weeks (9)
X. Tribulations and the final triumph of God’s people (10-12)

Question 4

Haggai

Answer 4

I. The rebuke of religious indifference (1)
II. The promised glory of the new temple (2:1-9)
III. Blessings for a defiled people (2:10-19)
IV. God will triumph through his servant (2:20-23)

Question 5

Zechariah

Answer 5

I. Messages during the building of the Temple (1-8)
A. Call for national repentance (1:1-6)
B. The eight visions (1:7-6:15)
C. Obedience is better than insincere fasting (7-8)
II. Messages after the building of the Temple (9-14): the full restoration of God’s people
A. The redemption of God’s people (9-10)
B. The problem of false shepherds (11)
C. The triumph of God’s kingdom (12-14)

Question 6

Malachi

Answer 6

I. Introductory appeal: God’s love for Israel (1:1-5)
II. Oracles against the priests (1:6-2:9)
III. Oracles against the people (2:10-4:3)
IV. Concluding admonitions: keep the law and wait for the coming of the Lord (4:4-6)

Question 7

931

Answer 7

The transition from a United to a divided Kingdom

Question 8

734

Answer 8

Syro-Ephraimitic War

Question 9

722

Answer 9

Fall of Samaria (capital of the northern kingdom)

Question 10

701

Answer 10

Assyrian invasion of Jerusalem

Question 11

621

Answer 11

Josiah’s major reforms and the discovery of the book of the Law in the temple

Question 12

609

Answer 12

The Battle of Meggido, Egypt defeated Judah and Josiah died, Jehoiakim begins his reign in Judah under Egyptian control.

Question 13

605

Answer 13

Battle of Carchemish, Babylon defeated Egypt ,

Question 14

586

Answer 14

Babylon destroys Jerusalem and the temple

Question 15

538

Answer 15

end of Babylonian captivity under Cyrus the great

Question 16

515

Answer 16

completion of the second temple